Lookalikes: Can resemble pendulous Usnea in color & habit, but Alectoria has not axis. Greenish-yellow species of Alectoria can be mistaken for Ramalina or Evernia. Evernia is usually soft & pliable & doesn’t have raised white pseudocyphellae. Ramalina usually has flattened branches; the species with round, slender branches (like R. thrausta) have tips that curl up & develop a few granules, & the pseudocyphellae– if present– are more like dots.